Salahaddin [Salah ad Din] provincial council has allocated 40 billion Iraqi dinars ($34.4m) to the development of the health sector in the province. Ammar Yusuf, the deputy chairman of the council, told AKnews that they decided to allocate this amount to support the health sector, contribute to health projects and address the deficiencies that exist […]
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Iraq Shuns Rail to Protect Ports
Iraq’s Transport Minister has said that Iraq turned down a project to create rail links between Iraq and the Gulf states because it wanted to project Iraqi ports. He added that the border problem with Iran had hampered the clearing of sunken ships and materials in Shatt Al-Arab Waterway. “If the country is linked with […]
$160m New Projects in Dhi-Qar
The governor of the province of Dhi-Qar held has announced that 17 infrastructure projects worth more than 185 billion dinars [$160m] have been granted to local companies, according to Aswat al-Iraq. Taleb al-Hassan told the news agency that “the province will implement another batch of projects in the regions and municipalities which have not witnessed […]
New $5.6m Hospital for Wassit
Wasit Investment Commission has announced that it granted its first investment licence within the health sector to an Iraqi company for the construction of a private hospital at a cost of around 6.5 billion Iraqi Dinars [$5.6m]. The new 100-bed hospital is to be equipped under the supervision of engineers from the investment board and […]
Metito Wins Iraq Water Contract
UAE-based Metito has signed a contract worth 33 billion Iraqi Dinars ($28.3 million) with Al Mustakbal Al Saeed (MSGC) for increasing its provision of potable water across Iraq. MSGC said the contract is for design and construction of Hindiyah water treatment plant located just east of the city of Karbala. The project aims to supply […]
Tags: Al Mustakbal Al Saeed, Amara, Amarah, Hindiyah, Jadwal Gharbi, Karbala, Kerbala, Khayrat, Metito, MSGC
$3m to Develop Nippur Archaeological Site
An official in Diwaniya said on Friday evening that the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism has allocated 3.5bn Iraqi Dinars (ID) [$3m] to the rehabilitation of the Neipur [Nippur] archaeological city south of Diwaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad. Dakhil al-Kanani, the head of the Supreme Committee of the Niepur cultural festival in Diwaniya province told […]
Basra Council Approves "ID 288 bn" Energy Project
Basra's Council approved an energy project worth 288 billion dinars [$246m] on Thursday, a vice president of the Basra council told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The council approved during its regular session an energy project to establish four generating units with a production capacity of 400kv (sic) at the al-Najiebiya electricity plant,” Ahmad al-Salieti is […]
Tags: Basra News, Electricity In Iraq
Tons of Garbage Being Dumped in Tigris
The Tigris River which bisects Baghdad and several other major Iraqi cities has about one billion cubic meters of polluted materials dumped into it, according to a senior environment expert. Azzaman news agency quotes Kamel al-Saadi, Baghdad Province’s expert on the environment, as saying that pollution was increasing in the river “at an alarming rate” […]
Shatt al-Arab Borders to be Demarcated
The outgoing Iraqi government announced on Friday that the demarcation of borders on the Shatt al-Arab will begin at the beginning of November under the supervision of the United Nations (UN), according to AKnews. The Shatt al-Arab is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet and flow into the Persian Gulf. Ahmed al-Shihani, foreign affairs […]
Karbala Council Rejects New Electricity Tariffs
Karbala Council has issued an appeal to its citizens not to pay the new domestic electricity tariffs introduced by the Ministry of Electricity this month, according to AKnews. The head of Karbala’s energy and fuel commission, Zuhair Samil al-Da’mi, told the agency that the ministry’s ten-fold increase was “completely unfair” in the light of the […]
USAID Allocates $80m to Iraqi Health Sector
A Kurdish official has reported that USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, has allocated $80 million to develop the health sector in Iraq. Speaking to AKnews on Tuesday, Khalis Qadir, spokesman for Kurdistan's Health Ministry, said USAID announced the allocation on Monday in a conference in Tikrit, 140 km northwest of Baghdad. The […]
$28m Alstom Deal to Repair Iraq Power Plant
Reuters reports that French engineering group Alstom has signed a 20 million euro ($27.83 million; 33 billion iraqi dinars) contract with Iraq on Monday to rehabilitate a unit at one of its power plants. Alstom, maker of industrial power plants and high-speed trains, said in a statement it would rehabilitate a unit at the gas-fired […]